Designing a Programming Language for Patient-Oriented Prescriptions

Completed

Conditions studied: Patients, Programming Languages

In brief

The purpose of this study is to create a human-readable and executable computer language to implement medical prescriptions and to evaluate and refine this language, with the goal of improving safety and efficacy of patient care.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT02820168

Run by

Northwestern University

People needed

56

Starts

2016-02-01

Expected to finish

2019-01-17

Last updated by the study team

2019-02-12

Who can join

Age: 18 and older, up to 50. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Patients between the ages of 18 and 50 years old who receive care at the Northwestern Maternal Fetal Medicine Clinic (MFM)
• Patients between the ages of 18 and 50 years old who visit Northwestern Medicine outpatient facilities and are patients of a clinician who is a coinvestigator on this project.
• Patients who are between the ages of 18 and 50 years old, are hospitalized at Northwestern Medicine inpatient facilities, and are patients of a clinician who is a coinvestigator on this project.

Where it is running

• Northwestern Medicine Clinics — Chicago, Illinois, United States
• Northwestern Memorial Hospital — Chicago, Illinois, United States

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